Table 4.4

Self-reported cigarette smoking status, by equivalised household income tertile within minority ethnic group

Aged 16 and over							1999
Current cigarette smoker	Equivalised household income tertile
	Men				Women
	Lowest	Middle	Highest		Lowest	Middle	Highest
Black Caribbean
Observed %	39	37	31	27		23	26
Standardised risk ratio	1.60	1.47	1.05	0.95		0.89	0.83
Standard error of risk ratio	0.18	0.16	0.12	0.11		0.11	0.09
Indian
Observed %	21	25	27	8		5	9
Standardised risk ratio	0.73	0.79	0.86	0.27		0.18	0.27
Standard error of risk ratio	0.15	0.11	0.10	0.10		0.06	0.06
Pakistani
Observed %	27	27	29	3		8	5
Standardised risk ratio	0.96	0.95	1.00	0.09		0.23	0.21
Standard error of risk ratio	0.12	0.12	0.17	0.03		0.07	0.12
Bangladeshi
Observed %	46	47	a	0		4	a
Standardised risk ratio	1.61	1.66	a	0.03		0.23	a
Standard error of risk ratio	0.12	0.18	a	0.03		0.11	a
Chinese
Observed %	22	15	16	5		9	14
Standardised risk ratio	0.77	0.47	0.50	0.21		0.28	0.59
Standard error of risk ratio	0.19	0.13	0.13	0.10		0.10	0.14
Irish
Observed %	[63]	36	36	44		32	31
Standardised risk ratio	[2.27]	1.35	1.31	1.48		1.15	1.04
Standard error of risk ratio	[0.25]	0.18	0.11	0.19		0.14	0.09
General population
Observed %	38	32	24	40		31	23
Standardised risk ratio	1.40	1.29	0.85	1.43		1.24	0.80
Standard error of risk ratio	0.12	0.07	0.04	0.09		0.06	0.04
Bases (weighted):
Black Caribbean	76	105	130	114		134	174
Indian	89	166	191	95		182	186
Pakistani	99	96	60	116		91	55
Bangladeshi	67	25	8	70		25	5
Chinese	18	26	30	21		29	34
Irish	100	416	827	208		563	989
General population	2668	11126	23693	4242		14642	25382
Bases (unweighted):
Black Caribbean	107	158	199	171		206	256
Indian	87	164	226	97		182	228
Pakistani	183	173	94	214		163	89
Bangladeshi	269	96	22	294		96	15
Chinese	60	82	94	69		87	112
Irish	39	139	284	84		189	351
General population	234	923	1910	370		1206	2038

^a The sample base for these categories is too small for results to be shown.

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